Category: Part 3: Maintaining your job and yourself

Funeral homes: Where hospice workers forget patient self-determination

A survey shows a hospice team’s weakness when it comes to funeral home planning and patient self-determination.

January 5, 2020 Advance directives / From personal experience... / Good lessons from bad hospice / Hospice ethics

Quiz: hospice philosophy and patient self-determination

Take this quiz to test your understanding of hospice philosophy!

August 12, 2018 Defining hospice social work success / From personal experience... / Navigating hospice culture

Good learning from bad hospice

I strive to be positive in a field with where shortcomings are often hard to ignore. I’m very fortunate to

July 13, 2018 Get a hospice social work job / Navigating hospice culture / Part 1: Beginning hospice social work

How to choose a good hospice (whether you’re looking for a job or signing up a relative)

Hospices are not all equally well run. This article begins a discussion about the qualities that make a hospice a better work situation for employees and service provider for patients.

June 10, 2018 Navigating hospice culture

When hospice nurses get anxious about patient care

Hospice social workers are surrounded by emotionally vulnerable people, and this includes our colleagues. It may not be part of

June 3, 2018 From personal experience... / Miscellaneous goodies / Part 3: Maintaining your job and yourself

How hospice social work changes you

Working as a hospice social worker has transformed me from a normal human being into something else. I was once

May 19, 2018 Part 3: Maintaining your job and yourself / Stay resilient and avoid burning out / Uncategorized

Love, freedom, and the social worker’s battle against burnout

How a social worker began the day burnt out and ended the day with hope and energy. It’s all about love!

May 13, 2018 Part 3: Maintaining your job and yourself / Stay resilient and avoid burning out

5 steps to building supportive work relationships in the hospice team

It’s no mystery that supportive colleagues and supervisors make life less stressful than vindictive colleagues and supervisor do. There is

May 6, 2018 Part 3: Maintaining your job and yourself / Stay resilient and avoid burning out

First aid for burnout

An immediate step to take if you are a burnt out social worker. The internal action to take to help you recover so you can return to a state of well-being.